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Can’t answer how well 90% would cut down on cases (substantially though) but the other piece was the vaccine may also lead to much less serious cases.

It will be nice when the normies of us can get eyes on some of these guys. I'd say 80% of the prospects in this piece I've never seen before, all intl/hs picks that never played outside of the AZL backfields.

Modernas phase 3 reports are fantastic. 95% efficacy and does NOT require the deep freeze storage Pfizer did.

I don’t know to be honest. I’m a little confused at the idea of Theo doing a fire sale and then bowing out next year unless plan is Jed Houer takes over?

He’s actually the ideal for me. He’s already paid a lot and “post prime” so you won’t need to send out as much in talent, but has shown he can adjust to his body changing and aging and maintain elite production. That’s the kind of trades that have worked out recently.

Make it interesting, who wouldn’t want to turn over their entire outfield in one offseason?

I really thought Boston just tried screwy stuff with porcello in 19 and he’d be ok in 20. Was wrong there. But Sox have done well with ground ballers recently

Lol yeah but doesn’t it seem like Thompson is the one that gets mentioned more? That Dalquist profile - command , projection, not top FB yet feels like what they’ve started targeting in LatAm pitchers too to better results than prior decade.

Yes but neither did Giolito before his changes.

Sounds like Sox keeping 2020 plan thru 2021.

https://theathletic.com/2198181/2020/11/15/white-sox-instructional-league-andrew-vaughn-jake-burger-garrett-crochet/?source=user_shared_article updates on Bailey, Sosa, Rodriguez, Ramos, Dalquist, Kelley, Gladney, Thompson, Bush, and an exciting update on Carranza. Hipster prospects galore.

I think this is the right main point but I would stress that it’s Giolito that deserves most of the credit. Katz went all in on helping him but it was Giolito who knew what changes to make

Reminds me of when the board was obsessed with Pedro severino

Aside from that, good trade.

His issue is being dumb as hell about what types of risk are acceptable. As well as handicapping his org constantly in order to be in better bargaining positions for CBA.

Don’t worry, he’s also coming off a front office run that became the laughingstock of the league.

Really enjoying this Reinsdorf fanfic that after years of patience and cultivating a young and exciting team the man to get us over the top is...Jerry Reinsdorf.

This is rich.

Dude

Springer is smart because you deal with the offseason you have, not force the one you want to have.

Let’s be real. Portillos could be Rick Hahn telling us Springer is their number one target. Even then the odds it actually ends up in him signing would be <50%

It will be a force. But depends what Dodgers throw out.

https://theathletic.com/2194535/2020/11/12/white-sox-to-hire-lucas-giolitos-mentor-ethan-katz-as-their-pitching-coach/ excellent stuff in here: He just has that really good natural eye for seeing where a pitcher is athletically, seeing where their mechanics are,” Giolito told me in March. “He’s not there for a paycheck, he’s not there for a job. He’s there because he genuinely wants to see his players get better. You can tell because he worked us so hard and he gave us very, very specific (training). I wasn’t doing the same drills that Max Fried was doing. I wasn’t doing the same drills that he had (Jack) Flaherty doing or other guys on the pitching staff. It was all tailored to, ‘What does this guy need to work on?’ He was very diligent in his work. He charted everything, which I think he still does that. Everything was written down. Everything had a purpose. Everything had a goal.”

No different than a coach going to Mexican league/DOminican league in offseason to me.